Title
Field Campaign Evaluation of Sensors Lufft GMX500 and MaxiMet WS100 in Peruvian Central Andes
Date Issued
01 May 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Valdivia J.M.
Guizado D.A.
Publisher(s)
MDPI
Abstract
The research presents the inter-comparison of atmospheric variables measured by 9 automatic weather stations. This set of data was compared with the measurements of other weather stations in order to standardize the values that must be adjusted when taken to different areas. The data of a set of a total of 9 GMX500, which measures conventional meteorological variables, and 10 WS100 sensors, which measures precipitation parameters. The automatic stations were set up at the Huancayo Observatory (Geophysical Institute of Peru) for a period of 5 months. The data set of GMX500 were evaluated comparing with the average of the 9 sensors and the WS100 was compared with an optical disdrometer Parsivel2 . The temperature, pressure, relative humidity, wind speed, rainfall rate, and drop size distribution were evaluated. A pair of GMX500 sensors presented high data dispersion; it was found found that the errors came from a bad configuration; once this problem was solved, good agreement was archived, with low RMSE and high correlation. It was found that the WS100 sensors overestimate the precipitation with a percentage bias close to 100% and the differences increase with the greater intensity of rain. The drop size distribution retrieved by WS100 have unrealistic behavior with higher concentrations in diameters of 1 mm and 5 mm, in addition to a flattened curve.
Volume
22
Issue
9
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Investigación climática
Meteorología y ciencias atmosféricas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85128509025
PubMed ID
Source
Sensors
ISSN of the container
14248220
Sponsor(s)
This research was funded by Universidad Nacional del Centro del Perú—UNCP thought CANON y SOBRECANON resources with grant number No. 2414-CU-2017.
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